Nero CD-DVD speed V4.51.1

[videobread]

I noticed that the previous release of Nero CD-DVD Speed V4.50, March 17, 2006, added the following:# Disc Quality Test

* Added 1x, 2x, 4x, 6x CLV and 8x P-CAV speed settings for BenQ drives.
* Enabled support for Pioneer drives

My question: Were Pioneer drives not supported prior to March 17, 2006? Did Speed Burn not work with Pioneer drives prior to March 17, 2006?

I'm getting some really bad scans from my A109's, but the DVD's play fine on most all players. I have never had a data loss deterioration problem either. My drive burn two 8x DVD's in 16 min. I've used all types and quality of media. I have scanned older DVD's produced on A106's and get the same bad scans. I have never had a playback skipping problem. Just the scans are bad. I've heard that Pioneer is not a good scanning drive.

Are the bugs out of Nero Speed DVD for Pioneer drives? Has anyone had good scans on Pioneer drives? Am I the only one getting bad sacan on Pioneer drives using Nero Speed DVD?

[budz]

Check out this thread at Cdfreaks.com in the Pioneer forum.

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=175669

[OneSickPup]

Are the bugs out of Nero Speed DVD for Pioneer drives? Has anyone had good scans on Pioneer drives? Am I the only one getting bad sacan on Pioneer drives using Nero Speed DVD?

Nero CD-DVD Speed is not the problem - there are no bugs in reference to Pioneer drive support. The problem is in Pioneer's decision to limit scanning capabilities of their drives. Erik Deppe (author of CD-DVD Speed) can only do so much - he has attempted to provide scanning capabilities for Pioneer owners. IMO, I would never use a Pioneer for scanning unless it were merely to compare burns of one media versus burns of another media on that Pioneer drive. Beyond that - they are pretty worthless for quality scanning. There are basically only 3 options for reliable quality scanning Benq, Plextor and Liteon. Plextor drives are expensive - slow (but accurate) scanners - and use PlexTools software which is awkward to use in comparison to KProbe or CD-DVD Speed. Benq and Liteon are what I use. Both have strengths and weaknesses. I prefer Liteon because they tend to prefer no particular drive versus another. Benq scans (to me anyway) show a slight bias towards media burned on the Benq itself.

BTW - v4.51.1 is available now.